Scotland’s oldest Royal Burgh predates Glasgow’s charter and sits practically inside it — which makes Rutherglen’s route to the bench the shortest kind of formality. Ten minutes, one free diagnosis, and a fixed number before anything happens.
M74 junction 1A puts Rutherglen on the motorway network seconds from home, and Charing Cross is ten to fifteen minutes up the road. The rail option is just as easy — Rutherglen station straight into Central. And for a drive that’s already fragile, the padded insured parcel remains the calmest passenger seat in Scotland.
Ruglonians bring the full spread: trades machines with years of invoices, main-street business tills and back-office PCs, and the family externals that quietly became the only copy of everything. Eight centuries of burgh pragmatism applies — no drama at the counter, just the order of operations: image, fix, verify, return.
Whatever arrives, the terms don’t move with the postcode: a free diagnostic first, a fixed figure in writing before any work — £250 + VAT for cards and sticks, £300 + VAT for any single drive, from £500 + VAT for RAID, NAS and servers — and on most jobs, no recovery means no fee. Every job is handled in-house by our own engineers and your data never leaves the UK.
Whichever costs you less bother — you’re close enough that both are trivial. The one wrong answer is the third option: leaving it plugged in “to see”. Powered off in a drawer beats powered on in hope, every time, until it travels.
Always get one before anything is binned — “dead” from a shop usually means “dead to software”, and most of this site is about exactly those drives coming back. The second opinion here is free, in writing, and occasionally very good news.
Power it down, pad it well, and choose your route — the counter at Tay House, 300 Bath Street (Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm) or insured, tracked post from Rutherglen. Either way it’s diagnosed free and quoted in writing before anything is decided.